Chapter 22 Sudden Changes
"It's good to have these cannon fodders." The boss of the five people took a dog-legged knife and cut off a mutant rat that had escaped the net and said to Luo Yuan.
His name is Huang Yaoguang. He was originally the security captain of a company. After a few days of the company's bankruptcy, he brought some subordinates and took root in the garbage dump. The last time the rat wave had not been rescued by Luo Yuan, they would have turned into bones. So as soon as he set off, he and a few brothers followed Luo Yuan tightly, never leaving.
"A group of mobs, whenever there is danger, they may disperse!" Luo Yuandao looked up and looked into the distance. There were shadows ahead. Many people left this garbage dump of several square kilometers, gathering thousands of people.
The scale of this rat tide is extremely large, probably the largest in the past half month. The deeper the further forward, the more frequent the battles, and more and more corpses on the ground. Occasionally, you can see a few mutant rats biting the corpse, intestines and internal organs everywhere as if no one was around.
The smell of blood mixed with the unique odor of the dump, creating a weird and disgusting smell.
"Look, what's there?" someone suddenly shouted in front of him!
Everyone immediately looked at it and saw a gray blanket moving towards this side a hundred or so meters away. Gunshots suddenly broke out in front of them, and the crowds were rioting. A small number of people began to run back desperately, but more people ran towards the side, and the scene was extremely noisy.
This is not a blanket, but a tide of rats in a radius of hundreds of meters. Countless mutant mice gathered together, pushing forward like waves.
"Let's go, the Rat King must be there." Chen Haiyan shouted loudly.
After saying that, he ran towards the front.
Everyone accelerated their pace and rushed to the front line of the battle. At first sight, they couldn't help but take a breath of air conditioning.
There are densely packed rats in front of them, and the rat tide covers several garbage mountains. All you can see is the tip of the iceberg, but even so, there are no less than a thousand.
If it weren't for the fact that there were still hundreds of people fighting around, and there were more people who rushed toward this side, I'm afraid he would have already retreated.
"Kill!" Chen Haiyan shouted, took the lead and rushed into the rat tide. She slashed several rats with a few slashes. As the footwork was rising and falling, the body movement turned left and right, and changed into chopping, pricking, snatching, slashing, wiping, belting, pulling, and cutting, and other knife techniques. The surrounding mice could not get close to them at all.
"Boss Luo, what should I do?" Huang Yaoguang and others were not the ones Chen Haiyan called over, and they admired Luo Yuan very much. Seeing this, did they attack immediately, but instead asked Luo Yuan.
"But a few rats are not enough for us to kill. You stand behind me and help me block the mutant rats on both sides." After looking at Chen Haiyan's performance, Luo Yuan was also a little excited.
"Okay, I'll cover it with us later. Unless I step on our bodies, I will never miss a mouse?" Huang Yaoguang knew that this would make them much less stressed, so he immediately assured.
Luo Yuan pointed, took the knife and walked forward.
After so long training, his sword skills have been improved to thirteen points, and compared to the last time he went to Yushui City, his strength has been improved. The whole knife in his hand was like an arm and fingers, and he saw his sword light flashing. Before the mice approached, they were cut off their heads and corpses, and blood was splattered everywhere.
Compared with Chen Haiyan's martial arts sword technique, his sword style does not have many tricks. Each move is extremely concise and never has any unnecessary movements. If you want to talk about characteristics, there is only one word fast, which is too lightning to cover up. Most people don't even see clearly, and they have already slashed out with one knife. So that Huang Yaoguang and others who followed him were basically nothing to do.
In addition to Luo Yuan and Chen Haiyan, the middle-aged man of Qian Dakui was also particularly eye-catching.
He roared, lowered his body, held his shield, and rushed towards the tide of rats like a bull. His power was extremely powerful, and he rushed all the way with the shield with many sharp blades hanging on it, invincible. The rats around him were not only knocked away by it, but their bodies were shattered by the sharp blades on his shield, either dead or broken.
He rushed for a few meters and stopped. The shield in his hand suddenly rotated around himself. Several mutant rats who were trying to bypass the attack on him were quickly knocked away. The next moment, he took the machete and kept slashing. Although he could not compare with Luo Yuan and Chen Haiyan, he easily withstood the attack of the group of rats with the shield protection.
The two of Zhou and the other two fell to the end, occasionally shooting once, killing the rats that escaped. For them, each bullet is precious, so it is naturally impossible to kill unscrupulously like melee combat. Moreover, the bullets they brought with them this time were not many, so they could only stay at critical moments.
The crowd continued to advance, leaving behind corpses along the way, including mutant rats, humans, but more of them were mutant rats.
More than ten minutes later, the crowd had pushed the front line by hundreds of meters, and the number of people increased to more than a thousand people. The tide of rats became increasingly sparse.
At this moment, a very oppressive roar suddenly came from the front. The sound was not like the screams of a mouse, but more like the roar of some kind of ferocious beast. When the mutant rat in front heard the roar, it suddenly began to retreat quickly as if it was a tide.
"No! The Rat King is about to escape. If there is no chance, it will be even more difficult to kill it in the future." Luo Yuan's face changed and said loudly. Once the Rat King escaped, his mission might have failed.
"Chasing! Never let him escape?" Everyone also saw it, and the crowd was so excited that they were crazy.
The team was quickly diverted, except for more than a hundred people who chased them, most of them stayed. After all, the ambitious people were only a small number, and most of them came here just to make a big profit and did not want to take too much risk. There are so many mutant rat corpses, which is enough to allow them to live a stable life and there is no need to take risks.
A few minutes later, a huge mouse appeared in sight.
I don’t know if it reflects the moonlight or if it is like this, but it looks silver-white all over. Its body, about 1.5 meters long, looks smoother than ordinary mice. The slender tail is in a straight line in the air, swaying slightly as the body moves. It looks like a noble king, surrounded by a group of mutant rats star arching the moon, and retreats slowly to the distance.
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Luo Yuan's eyes lit up. The size of this mutant mouse was not too exaggerated. Compared with the giant snake and the giant dog, it was just a small person. Except for the thousands of mutant mice guarding around it, the rest were basically comparable to the blue-level creatures I encountered before.
"Do you have the courage to rush?" Luo Yuan said to the temporary team.
"We have no courage. We have been staying at home for a long time. Why are we here working hard? I can see this world clearly. We are so brave. We will be brave enough to starve to death. We will be brave enough to die today." Huang Yaoguang cooperated. He could see that Luo Yuan, Chen Haiyan and others seemed to have extremely strong desire to attack. Although they didn't know the reason, it must be related to the value of the Rat King. Thinking of the rumors I had heard, his heart suddenly pounded.
"Yes, those who don't want to go can quit now." Chen Haiyan finished speaking and glanced at everyone.
"Isn't it a joke to quit when I've reached this point? Add me one?" Qian Dakui curled his lips and smashed one end of the shield to the ground. He gasped. Holding such a heavy weapon, even if he had good physical strength, he could not bear it.
"Boss Zhou, where are you three?" Chen Haiyan asked the other three.
"We won't quit, but I'm more worried that others will take advantage of it. It's more than us here!" Boss Zhou rubbed his pistol, looked at the nearby people, and said with a smile.
Luo Yuan didn't care much. His goal was to kill the Rat King and complete the task. As for how many people would share the spoils in the end, this was just a matter of the future. It would be nice to have more, but it didn't matter if there was less. He had already been preparing to hunt blue-level creatures elsewhere, so he would not have to argue with others for a little profit. The more people there were, the more he could share some risks and increase the success rate of the task.
However, he could only hide this in his heart and could not say it clearly. He thought for a while and said, "Why would you discuss with them and make a charter. I think there shouldn't be many people who dare to go."
"I'll do this. I know all the leaders of those bigger teams!" Chen Haiyan pondered for a while and said.
"Okay, I'll leave it to you." Luo Yuan watched coldly.
Luo Yuan could see that Chen Haiyan was a very ambitious person. She was very active all the way and was in the position of leader intentionally or unintentionally. However, all this had nothing to do with him. The more active he was, the more beneficial it would be to him, and he also liked it.
More than a hundred people faced thousands of mutant rats and a rat king. As expected, many people hesitated and still insisted in the end. They only talked about more than fifty people, and they were vaguely divided into three teams, which were basically temporarily pieced together.
After this delay, the group of rats gradually passed one of the garbage hills and was about to disappear. Luo Yuan was anxious, but he had no choice but to think about it.
After a while, Chen Haiyan finally came back. He looked ahead and said in a very quick tone: "Because time is tight, let's talk about it on the way?"
"The result of the negotiation was that the three teams attacked in three directions, first got half of the spoils, and the other two teams were divided equally." Chen Haiyan trotted while saying hurriedly: "The advantage of this is that even if she failed to kill the Rat King first, she could get some!"
"It's good, otherwise even if we kill the Rat King, we will probably be beaten up by others. Everyone who can do this here is a good person and can do anything for the sake of profit." Qian Dakui nodded and said.
The garbage dump is an extremely chaotic and cruel place, and there are some orderly urban areas. Human lives are not worth anything here, and more than a hundred people die or disappear almost every day. These people are killed by mutant rats and killed by others. The bodies after death have even turned into piles of bones without dawn.
While humans eat mutant mice, mutant mice are also eating humans.
If the species on land do not have strict discipline, once they reach numbers, their speed will be greatly dragged down. After more than ten minutes, the team quickly caught up with the rat tide again.
The battle broke out quickly. After a riot, the rat tide suddenly stopped moving. Perhaps because he saw that the number of enemies was much smaller this time, there was an opportunity to take advantage of it. Countless mutant rats suddenly surged up like a tide.
At this moment, even Luo Yuan felt the pressure increase sharply.
He walked forward and backward, swaying left and right, and the horse in his hand almost danced into a phantom under the moonlight. The mutant rats who were fearless were cut invisibly as soon as they jumped into the air.
He attacked like a tide, like a sharp blade, slowly tearing the rat tide away. He moved forward step by step, and lie down at each step, with the corpses of several mutant rats sprinkled with blood all the way.
"Drip, knife skills improve +1"
Luo Yuan seemed to have not realized the system's prompt. At this time, his mental power had been highly condensed, and his whole body emitted a palpitations. This aura made every mutant rat rushing over and his movements were chaotic.
Within a minute, the team suffered a reduction in personnel. Because Zhou and the other two were guns, they were placed at the end. If they were small mutant rats, it would be fine afterwards, but now they encountered a tide of rats, and there were rats everywhere.
A mouse bit one of the calves from behind. After being shot dead by him, two more rushed over from behind. He kept spraying bullets and shot the two mutant rats in a hurry, but found that he had left the team and gradually left.
More and more mice flocked to him. He just called for help and was swallowed by a group of mice.
"Boss!" Boss Zhou turned around and wanted to rescue him, but it was too late. He cursed inwardly, his face gloomy, and he winked at the last subordinate, and the two of them squeezed into the middle of the team.
Huang Yaoguang and others followed Luo Yuan tightly, blocking the mutant rats from both sides, sharing the pressure from Luo Yuan, but it was soon unsustainable. Several people hung up the lottery one after another. Seeing this, Chen Haiyan and Qian Dakui quickly joined in. Ten people formed a group to firmly block the mutant rat's crazy attack.
At this time, gunfire suddenly sounded loudly in the distance, and the rat tide was alarmed and rushed towards the other side quickly, and suddenly came down lightly.
"Cao! Is it the armed police force?" Chen Haiyan looked back in her busy schedule, and suddenly became angry and gritted her teeth and said, "I don't know who informed me. If I know, I must kill him."
I saw dozens of soldiers not far away, holding rifles, charging, and constantly shooting at the tide of rats. All the mutant rats around rushed towards them, and the mutant rats on Luo Yuan became sparse.
He looked at it for a while, his face was gloomy and he could only sigh dejectedly: "Let's go, there are these people here. We don't even have to drink soup. They will not let go of every lord-level mutant creature."
"We're leaving like this?" Huang Yaoguang touched Guai's arm and said in disbelief.
"What else can I do if I don't leave? Can I grab food with the army? " Qian Dakui used a shield to smash a mutation away with his shield, spitting thick phlegm.
Chapter completed!